Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 30, 2022
Alan Williams: ‘There is no job better’ than running Bears’ D
Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Alan Williams watches the team warm up during a three-day voluntary minicamp at Halas Hall in Lake Forest on April 20. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-TimesClose your eyes and think about the Bears’ defensive coordinators over the past decade. Bet you can picture each one of them.
The intense Mel Tucker was the future Michigan State godsend. Vic Fangio dressed like your old gym coach but is perhaps the best-respected coordinator of his generation. Chuck Pagano, the former Colts head coach and cancer survivor, spoke in thousand-word chapters and sounded like a walking self-help audiobook. Sean Desai, a professor in his spare time, was an academic.
